Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections

Special Thanks

Our deep thanks goes to:MidTown, Inc. and its Executive Director Anne King for inviting us as partners.

Thanks to our Midtown project interviewees including:

  • Edward Burdeshaw
  • Betsy Covington (Executive Director of the Community Foundation fo the Chattahoochee Valley)
  • Anne King (Executive Director, MidTown, Inc.)
  • Isaiah Hughley (City Manager)
  • Bennie Newroth
  • Virginia Peebles
  • John Sheftal
  • Honorable Teresa Tomlinson (Mayor of Columbus, Ga and past Executive Director of MidTown, Inc.)
  • Elizabeth Barker (Executive Director, Historic Columbus)

CSU faculty:

  • Dr. Brad Huff, Associate Professor, Department of History and Geography
  • DAvid Owing, CSU Archivist 

Finally thanks to all the hard work of the following students in Dr. Amanda Rees's Urban Geography class including:

  • Celeb Ashburn (interviewer and institutional historian)
  • Cheltzie Brown (interviewer and cartographer)
  • Eric Derhammer (interviewer and institutional historian)
  • Jessica Dixon (interviewer and timeline)
  • Brandon Hatcher (interviewer)
  • Kelsie Hughes (interviewer and Midtown district historian)
  • Rachel Knapp (interviewer and community development historian)
  • Morgan Robinson (interviewer and community development historian)
  • Anastasia Romain (interviewer and community development historian)
  • C.E. Sturgeon (Interviewer, image curator and web designer)
Special Thanks